The BBC DVD "The Genius of Photography - how photography has changed our lives" has an interesting chapter on Russian / Soviet photography. Yes, I do realise it's not a book, but thought it could be of interest nonetheless.

The whole series is quite good, for anyone interested in the history of photography, by the way.

Søren

"We are much more likely to act our way into a new way of thinking than think our way into a new way of acting." - R. Pascale

Look for old issues of Sovietsko Foto, it was the Soviet equivalent of Popular Photography, and if you are good with languages, you should be able to decode a few things from the Russian.

Using film since before it was hip.

"One of the most singular characters of the hyposulphites, is the property their solutions possess of dissolving muriate of silver and retaining it in considerable quantity in permanent solution" — Sir John Frederick William Herschel, "On the Hyposulphurous Acid and its Compounds." The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Vol. 1 (8 Jan. 1819): 8-29. p. 11

David , There are many old soviet books cover the constructivism and the graphic arts. I found someone from facebook , a book shop , specialized about these 30 50s books and sell each for 1500 dollars.
May be You can find the books from Moscow Stpetersburg State Libraries and get a copy or the library exchange.
If you interest on soviets , find russian foto forum . It is light years better than apug galleries.
If you interest in cinema Tarkovski and Eisenstein books are a must.
You must must must download Tarkovski Stalker movie , Tarkovski Andrey Rublev movie , Eisenstein Ivan The Terrible and Potemkin from www.gigle.ws free. Each of rapidshare file put 15 minutes delay .
And you can contact with VGIK Moscow russian State Cinema School and get a copy of their publication list.
Some of them avail. at russian sites , google it.
You can OCR Scanner the text , carry to text file and translate with google translate.

thank you all i hadnt realised the genius of photography covered the early russians and its is available here i have found a 40s soviet reconstruction magazine series but boy is it expensive US$150-1500 per edition